I've started using the labelling feature (very nice). I have an excessively
large Inbox (IMAP, about 4400 messages totalling 250MB). I recently deleted
INBOX and INBOX.msf on my Win98 system in order to have Mozilla rebuild these
files (the previous INBOX was 350MB, presumably rebuilding compressed out a
bunch of deleted messages). Upon rebuilding the inbox those messages which
had previously been labelled via a message filter were still labelled
properly, but those which I had manually relabelled weren't, and those which
match the message filter but were initially received before the message filter
was put in place were not labelled. So my questions are:
1) Is the label information stored on the IMAP server, or purely locally (in
the .MSF file?)
2) Should the labelling information have survived deletion of INBOX and
INBOX.msf?
3) Upon rebuilding the local INBOX, why didn't all messages matching the
filter get labelled? Are newly-received messages treated the same (with
respect to filters) as those received as part of rebuilding the inbox?
Bottom line, are there some bugs to be filed here?
Bill
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